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Ken Taylor RIP

Started by crazy canuck, October 16, 2015, 04:43:34 PM

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crazy canuck

The Canadian Ambassador who saved a group of Americans during the Iranian hostage crisis has passed away.

A great man.  :(

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/former-canadian-diplomat-ken-taylor-dies/article26828358/

Josephus

Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

PDH

RIP

Too often people do only what they think will save their skin in times of chaos.  It is those who actually do something good in those times that keeps the faith in humanity alive.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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"I'm pretty sure my level of depression has nothing to do with how much of a fucking asshole you are."

-CdM

Admiral Yi

Thanks for hooking us up bro.

grumbler

I'd heard him in several interviews, and he seemed both insightful and funny.  Kinda the exact way you would expect an ideal ambassador to sound.  His conduct seemed equally impeccable.   RIP.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!